cape leveque

From Broome to the Cape was a challenging but rewarding journey that me and my young daughter had determined to undertake: to drive not without its risks close to 600 Ks of the red dirt in a rented Prada .. Great decision and will always make a great story.. Check out the Cape amongst many other spots for its rugged and unique position on the ocean edge ..breathtaking panoramic views which include lookouts, a lighthouse, a well maintained resort and an amazing steak sandwich to end it all.. There's a Atm and a curios shop on site and whilst we didn't stay on the property but merely passed through it , it was so worth it even though for a short arvo!

Seeing brown cliffs with blue water in a quiet location after a long drive from Broome is an amazing sight.Pure serenity set amongst a remote location must be seen to be believed

We flew to Cape Leveque with Kimberley Aviation as part of a scenic flight over the Bonaparte Archipelago and the Horizontal Falls. From the end of the bush airstrip, where the pilot parked our plane (a six-seater Cessna 210), it is a short stroll to the Kooljaman Restaurant and Visitor Centre, where a hearty breakfast awaited us. The Kooljaman Restaurant has a large covered decking area where we breakfasted. The food was very good, with a selection of cereals and fruit juices, as well as a cooked breakfast and a selection of pastries and muffins. A pot of tea, from a range of speciality teas, or a coffee from a proper Espresso machine helped it all go down. I was amazed at the quality of the offerings given the remoteness of the location. Then a few minutes walk past the campsite to the beach. The beach is in a beautiful sheltered bay - and they do assure you that they never have crocs visiting the beach! There is also another cafe down at the beach (the original Kooljaman cafe).A fantastic gem that is well worth the flight from Broome. The Kooljaman Restaurant and Visitor Centre includes a well-stocked souvenir shop and helpful staff to guide you during your stay.

Cygnet bay pearl farm has it all great accommodation styles, friendly professional staff, licensed great restaurant and coffee shop. Perfect for families lots of space in the bush with high tide beaches and enjoyable tours. This is a working pearl farm that has the wow factor

Beautiful and unique area - well worth the drive - We did the day tour which included Cygnet Bay Pearl Farm.

Loved Cape Leveque! Owned by the traditional owners, providing great jobs for the community. Service was excellent. Natural beauty was spectacular! Long corrugated road but easy in a 4WD.

We were travelling on a budget and camping out. Had heard lots of wonderful reports about Cape Leveque over the years, so decided to check it out. After 200km of corrugated dirt road(some tar towards the end) we finally arrived, to be confronted by a sign saying, privately owned-all visitors must check in, and a large fancy building. We were aghast! All that way over a horrible road and we had to pay to see Cape Leveque-couldn't believe it! We turned around and left. Cape Leveque is actually a privately owned resort named Kooljamin and you have to pay to get in to see the view, the beach, and experience whatever Cape Leveque has to offer. Travellers we met on our trip had the same reaction, but they went in and paid because they wanted to fish. When they went to take their car in with all their fishing gear they were told that they had to go on foot. So they asked for their money back and left. It seems that there are some places in Australia that only the rich can enjoy.

This was a good trip but if I was doing it again, I would choose the option of staying at Cape Leveque and coming back the next day. However, we visited Beagle Bay community, another community which runs a barramundi hatchery, Cygnet Pearl Farm (beautiful!) and they are building accommodation & a pool there. Cape Leveque was wonderful with red rocks and beautiful beaches. We watched the sunset of west beach but didn't get back to Broome until 9.30, over mostly unsealed roads.

Travelling to Cape Leveque was interesting, the gravel road was variable, some of it good and wide, but then closed down to a one lane road with high sides, plus a lot of dust.Kooljamon was well worth the drive, the powered sites ok, we were too near the amenities and felt after a couple of days we knew everyone! the amenities were clean and water good.There were several options of accommodation, the un-powered sites overlooked the ocean and not far from the amenities.One Arm Point is a great place to visit, the Hatchery interesting, Cygnet Bay is one place if you want to buy a very expensive Pearl.

You know that iconic panoramic sweep showing immaculately white-and-black clad young girls and boys standing to attention on those red-rock cliffs at Cape Leveque (pronounced "lev-eek") and singing "I Still Call Australia Home"? Well, that's THE reason why I wanted to visit Cape Leveque, so I went on an all-day KimberleyWild tour (seniors pay $249.00), which was just as well, because their all-terrain and very comfortable 22-seater coach rode the unbelievably rough dirt roads (about 40% of the total mileage) with ease in the skilled hands of our enthusiastic, friendly and high knowledgeable guise, Lisa. We left at 0630 and returned to Broome at 1830. The first stop was at the renowned Sacred Heart Church at Beagle Bay where the (German) Palatinate Fathers created a unique white-painted church the altar, side chapels and Stations of the Cross in which were decorated with mother-of-pearl shell. Far from being gauche or gaudy it was quite moving in its own way. From there we went to One Arm Point to inspect an aquaculture hatchery now run by the local Beagle Bay Aboriginal community. I expected to be bored stupid, but it was informative and fun because of the interaction of the (local) guide with our tour group and the fascination of seeing, in perfectly clear water, the various species they were helping to preserve, not least after the depradations of the rapacious (Indonesian) fishermen who virtually wiped out the trochus shell population until the Australian authorities sand this community stepped in to save and nurture them. The major disappointment of the day was at the red-rock cliffs of Cape Leveque itself. Bearing in mind it was THE reason for the whole trip, why were only 10-15 minutes allowed for our visit there? I would love to have walked even the short distance along the beach to the outcrop of cliff where the red was most prominent, but we were told that the tides could be tricky (would another 10 minutes have made all that difference?), apart from which notices prominently displayed along the rough road down to the shore warned us not to venture beyond the specified point "for cultural reasons", and, as if to reinforce this message, a row of boulders would have prevented vehicular access in any event. To add insult to injury, a full 90 minutes was immediately after allotted for a beachside lunch (quite a comprehensive one provided by the tour operator) and a swim. Now the water was superb, sheltered (we moved 500 metres from the western side with its currents and rips to the sheltered east side of the [Dampier] Peninsula) and pristine. But surely it would have been more equitable to allot 15 minutes LESS for lunch/swim and 15 minutes MORE for photography of these iconic cliffs? After the lunch break we then visited another Catholic church, in the Lombadina community and, again, I was unexpectedly moved by the simplicity and the reverence of what really looked a ramshackle edifice, made from paperbark trees but with the Stations of the Cross again decorated with mother-of-pearl and the "actors" all depicted as indigenous. I'm glad we went, because it's genuinely a "one-off" as much as it's a "must-see" for any one visiting Broome.

Great day trip in the wild remote Dampier Peninsula to Cape Leveque' beautiful beaches, and visits to Communities along the way, if you do not want to take your own vehicle on these roads then we recommend this Company.Ross our driver and tour guide did a fine job for us all on this day trip and got us back home safely along bumpy but beautiful red dirt roads for 90kls of the 200 kls.

Cape Leveque is definitely worth visiting. It is peaceful and stunning. The Eastern Beach is different to the Western Beach – so make sure you see both. If you like sitting and looking as well as exploring places you visit I would recommend spending the night at the Cape. If this is not possible and you are doing a day trip – choose the 4WD/fly option as you may only have less than an hour to check out the beaches after lunch. Flying back to Broome gave us an extra 1.5 hours to check out the scenary and the ariel view on the way back is possibly even better than Cape Leveque! Our guide with Kimberly Wild was excellent. The 4WD coach was up to the job but try and sit in the front row or back row to get the best views. King Leopold airways flew us back in a small plane (6 seater including pilot's seat). The pilot was professional and informative. Will be happy to fly with them again.I was travelling with my mother (early 80s) and found both guide and pilot were attentive to helping her in and out of bus/plane as needed.

Whether you are Australian or an International visitor, if you are travelling to Broome and the Kimberley then make the effort to get up to Cape Leveque. You will need a 4WD to get there but it is one of the most stunning places in the country. Words and pictures cannot describe sitting atop the Pindan Cliffs at sunrise and sunset, watching the changing colours of the sky, the ocean and the cliffs. We camped at the Whalesong Café campsite for four nights and were well looked after by Jacinta & Lenny. The shower & toilet are unique. A camp fire at night was no problem. Sitting on the café verandah with coffee & cake after a morning fishing or beach walking, watching whales playing in Pender Bay is a memory that will last the rest of my life. Make sure you stop and go into the church at Beagle Bay. The altar is made from mother of pearl shells and is beautiful. The fishing is good and there is reasonable snorkelling at Middle Lagoon but ... a word of caution. Crocs are regularly in the area so take advice from the locals before you think about going in the water.

Although the trip was on a rough road to get there, it was absolutely beautiful and a truly magnificent part of Australia. Without doubt this was one of our highlights to visiting Western Australia. We were told by others who had visited this area that you cannot miss it. We spent two days there in the Safari Tents and enjoyed the area. The views and beaches are breath taking and you cannot explain this raw beauty of this landscape.We did not camp in the sites but in the family safari tents. We were a little disappointed in some aspects of this accomodation. You must take your own mosquito repellent because on dusk and early morning the mossies were quite fierce. The first night we stayed we had no water and we had to get in our car and drive up to the loacl restaurant to ask for some assistance to find someone who may be able to help. The next night we ran out of gas cooking our BBq on the deck half way through and had to go to the next camp tent and cook on their bbq to finish dinner. The toilet was quite dirty and I did mention this when we left and was told it was the water. Our neighbours toilet was not dirty. As the water seems to come from underground there are some issues. When I woke up I went to make a cup of tea and when I looked inside the kettle it was caked with white powder and flaking calcified chunks which floated in the water. If this is a problem perhaps these need to be replaced every few months. As the cost of renting one of these tents is quite expensive there needed to be a little more quality control by management.($250+ per night) We also felt that some maintenance like wiping down mould on verandah areas is just a part of living in the north and after the wet season there should have been some general maintenance that was sadly overlooked.I think this resort is in such a beautiful part of Australia they have relied on this to charge their prices and they know they have a captured market in the tourism industry because of how remote and special this area is.As we spent three weeks in Western Australia this was the only place we stayed in where there were issues with our accomodation. The area is without doubt all those things people have raved about... a touch of paradise!... Absolutely special and you must make the effort to go there.

Awesome place to camp so close to the water and plenty of beach and rocks to explore. Its a great place to escape to and get away from mobile phones and the pressures of work